Senior Engineer (Instruments) - Contractor

3 month contract 

Automata is building a world-class company to disrupt the life science industry and empower scientists by making automation a reality for every lab.

We work with labs across the world to understand their specific workflows and needs and develop personalised solutions that range from diagnostic, and drug discovery to synthetic biology. Our LINQ platform allows us to simplify everyday automation tasks, while supporting more advanced paths for specialised workflows, in a fast, flexible, and cost-efficient way. 

We are seeking a Senior Engineer (Full Stack) whose mission is to support our Instruments team by writing key drivers for our Customers.

Why is this role important at Automata?

Automata's engineering team is growing to meet an increased demand in our LINQ automation platform from our customers in the life sciences industry. We need highly skilled and experienced engineers to capture customer requirements and guide our customer projects and Product Engineering teams to suitable solutions at the intersection of hardware and software in the life-sciences automation space.

You will be responsible for:

• Supporting the delivery of our Instrument drivers for our customers.

• Resolving complex challenges.

• Providing reliable problem-solving, identifying and proposing resolutions to critical issues or incidents related to a project or area of expertise.

• Suggesting alternative solutions to customer problems based on available information.

• Designing and writing the code of software systems as required by the product function.

• Supporting users of the software systems with any issues they encounter.

• Writing test scenarios and carrying out testing of integrated systems that include software.

• Reviewing the code of peers to ensure software engineering best practices are followed.

What it takes:

• Previous experience with driver development

• Ideal skills; Python, Protobuf, REST APIs, gRPC, TCP/IP, serial interface

• Ideally experience with integrated systems or embedded systems

• Highly collaborative approach to developing software

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Nice to haves:

• DevOps

• Data Integrations

• Life Sciences

• Robotics

What gets us excited? 

We’re passionate about the future of Technology and Automation and our growing success is built upon like-minded individuals who share our passion. 

Leading our development and deployment of solutions on our LINQ platform in the life sciences automation space across both robotics hardware and software.

If this sounds like a good fit and has ticked the right boxes, you will love having the opportunity to build something that immediately adds value.